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An online sales art gallery has seen its sales leap by 427% after accepting cryptocurrency payments three months ago, writes the Daily Hodl.

Lynx Art Collection, which sells a range of quirky and unusual pieces from embossed small panels to Bitcoin beach towels, says that it has seen its sales rocket since selling its first poster back in 2012. The site now takes an extraordinarily broad range of crypto payments amounting to 725 cryptocurrencies. Incredibly, the company still feels it would like to add more coins to its list of payment options.

The site has linked up with Coinbase Commerce in order to take the major currencies. Nano payment is also available by using QR scanning for quick purchases.

Perhaps the success of Lynx shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. There is now a kind of anti-financial- establishment trend which provokes a need to purchase Bitcoin-related pieces, however kitsch some of them might be (remember, the art is in the eye of the beholder). When JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman Jamie Dimon recently called crypto a”“terrible store of value”, artist ‘cryptograffiti’ decided to produce his own artistic version of the description, as reported in Bitcoin News.

Add to this the artist Kevin Abosch of Yellow Lambo fame imprinting 100 physical artworks with the IAMA contract address on the Ethereum blockchain “corresponding to the creation” of 10 million virtual works titled ‘IAMA Coin’…using his own blood to ensure each coin literally was a piece of the artist as Abosch indicated.

If this might not be to the buyer’s taste, Andy Warhol may be, or perhaps a watercolor. Whatever one’s taste, cryptocurrency is becoming an increasingly popular payment method for art investors, and now that blockchain is being adopted to solve problems over copyright and provenance issues, it looks like crypto and art have made a match.